The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-02-17
Latest by Telegraph.


Q. ". Brigham, ex.supervisor and ex-
constable, was arrested on the charge ol
embezzlement at Milwaukee. .,
The railroad companies having head.
quarters at Milwaukee, have recently made
out, by request OF the war department. a
list OF their rolling stock and q statement
on their lines. These statements were sent
to the war department. ~. "
Postofices established. Dakota-Elliott,
Ransom county. Wise onsin-Felzer, Door
county. Name Changed-Iowa: Arcola,
Monona county, to Turin. Postmasters
Commissioned-Iowa: Camp, Norma Mont.
gomery. Minnesota: Fairmont, A. l..
Ward; Wells, J. w. Policy. Wisconsin:
K~irchpayne, H. Reismeyer. Fourth-Class
postmasters appointed-Dakota: Elk.
horn, J.C. Campbell. Iowa: Dakotah. A.
II. Holden; Monona, O. L. McGonigle.
Mantana: Grass Valley, j. E. Eye.
President Cleveland has signed the inter.
state commerce bill. This action was in
full accord with the opinion OF Attorny
General Garland and it is very well under.
stood to be in accord with, the views OF
the cabinet;
The president nominated Richard A.
Jones of Oregon to be supreme justice OF
"shAnStou AerIilory, anu rank "a. Alien
to be associate justice OF. supreme court
OF the same territory.
The conferrees on the bill to repeal pre-.
emption, timber culture and desert land
laws held a final meeting to-day and re.
solved to report to their respective houses
q total disagreement on the bill.
MI. McInteer of Mount Auburn, Iowa
grand chief foreman OF Brotherhood OF
Railway Section Foremanof North Ameri-
ca, n a section foreman on the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern road, was
discharged for irregular habits and neglect
OF duty.
Charles Press, convicted at the last term
OF court at La Crosse OF. the murder Of
Nelson White in July last, was granted a
new trial.
The president has received a letter from
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay OF Kentucky, calling
attention to a report hat a cargo of Eng.
isl -Austrian rabbits is at sea, bound for
tho United States. He says it would be
better to have pleuro-pneumoni small.
pox or cholera spread over the United
States than suffer the ravage which will
result from the importation of the rabbits.
The matter was referred to the treasury
department.. One OF the officials of the
department said that as there is no law to
prevent the importation of the rabbits,
the matter will be laid before the com
mittee of ways and means for such action
as may be deemed necessary.
Alfred Perkins farm residence near Be.
lott, Wis. was burned. The fire was caus.
ed by a detective chimney. Loss $4,000.
A motion to set aside t"e judgment for
5000, 900 damages granted to Rev. Faith.
by default, was sustained in the district
court. An order not recorded had been
made by Judge Hayes last term granting
the attorney for Bishop Hennessy time to
plead. The case has been continued until
the next term OF the district court.
William Constock, the oldest convict in
Auburn pe%nitentiary is dead. He was re-
ceived at the prison in 1858 on a life sen.
tence for % murder in Madison county.
He killed his father and mother, and cut
out their hearts and ate them.
The former parishioners OF Father
McGlynn are in a melancholy state OF
mind, owing to unfayorable reports con.
corning his health. He remains in bed
most OF the time, but occasionally he is
placed in a large armchair and propped up
with pillows. So helpless is he that he re-
quires as much attention as a sick child.
In an editorial on the strike, in the Stand
ard, Henry George says: I think it a fight
in the dark, the blind push OF men squeez-
ed past endurance. l think it the first
positive form OF a civil war which steel
clad forts and armor-plated ships cannot
guard us against-the kindling OF passions
and the %arraying of forces that, raised to
full energy, may give our cities to the
flames and destroy our very civilization
itself.
The La Crosse Edison Electric Light Com.
pany has been organized at La Crosse. Col.
f. A. Copeland, manager OF the Washburn
lumber mill, is president, and among the
stockholders are G.. Van S~teenwyck, W.. III.
Holcomb, 8. Y. Hyde, d. A. Mcdonald and
other wealthy men. ,r ~
J. E. Rutan, formerly editor and propri-
etor of the Pioneer Register Of Salem, OAK,
died at Orlando, Florida.
The 28th OF January was the coolest day
OF the winter at Watertown, Oak. The
day opened 400 below, moor zoo below, Z
p. m. $50 below.
The Minnesota senate passed the high Ii.
cense bill by a vote OF 26 to 10.
Mr.. Smith, one of a gang of men digging
a well at Minot, OAK, for the Manitoba
railroad. lost his balance and fell into the
well, ninety feet deep, breaking his neck
and dying instantly.
Thomas B. Fritzens, a druggist OF ,Aber-
deem, Oak, died in the union depot at
Milwaukee shortly after his arrival from
Aberdeen. He was on his way to Ale
ghany City, where his wife and child live.
In q letter to Mr.. Randall, chairman OF
the appropriation committee, Mr.. Sparks
gave d list OF the amounts surveyed in the
various states and territories up to June
80, 1856, and the amounts Of such sur
v~eyedslands~ disposed Of. The figures which
are approximations are rs follows: Michi-
gan, surveyed 36,12S. $40 acres; disposed
OF SO, O31,462 acres; undisposed OF, 97,214
acres. Minnesota, surveyed 2 ,152,6 74
acres; disposed of SO, 237, 7S4 acres; undis.
| posed OF, 8,9l4,S9O acres. Wisconsin,, in
81, ell, $50 acres; disposed of 81, 759, 646
acres; u%ndisposed OF 2,751,715 acres. Da-
kota: surveyed 47,392, 242 acres; disposed
oil, 48,O72,4 AGA acres. disposed of in excess
OF surveys, $50, 222 acres. Montana, sur
veyed Is, LAP, 855 acres; disposed Of S, 1874.
513; undisposed OF 8 1878, 342 acres. The
apparent excess OF land disposed Of over
lands surveyed in Dakota, he says, is due
to the cancellation OF q large number OF
entries.
The business failures during the last
seven days, according'to r.. g. Dun q Co.,
number for the United States 229, for
Canada 80. total 261, compared with 271
last week. The failures in Canada are
numerous and important; in New York
city few and unimportant. and in other
sections 81 the country about up to the
average.
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